Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Lakes
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Lake skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 7 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.36% 3.23% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.28% 18.18% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +29.19% - -
75th Percentile £488 £374 -
90th Percentile £550 £384 -
North East median daily rate £463 £358 £850
% change year-on-year +29.19% -57.88% +51.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
North East median hourly rate £69.44 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Tyne and Wear

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 57 44 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.07% 17.74% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 28 14
10th Percentile £379 £358 £381
25th Percentile £409 £405 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -20.83%
75th Percentile £550 £531 £488
90th Percentile £618 £658 £535
North East median daily rate £463 £460 £476
% change year-on-year +0.54% -3.36% -17.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
North East median hourly rate £69.44 - £20.77
% change year-on-year - - -57.61%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lake relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Data Lake job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Lake

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -23 5 £463 +29.19% 1
Data Lake
North East

Data Lake
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) Serverless
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Delta Lake
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) AI
1 5 (71.43%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (14.29%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) SysML
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Talend